Comedy Quotes
-
I grew up a geek. I added comedy to it midway through high school.
-
None of my comedy depended on looks. I never did tons of fat jokes.
-
I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
-
In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
-
Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.
-
'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.
-
I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.
-
Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
-
I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.
-
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
-
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
-
I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.
-
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
-
I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.
-
Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
-
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
-
When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.
-
I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.
-
I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
-
Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.
-
My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.
-
To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
-
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
-
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
